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Free Templates, High Impact Strategies and Classroom Ideas to Support Multilingual Learners

As teachers of multilingual learners we value student’s languages and cultures. We understand that our students are learning a new language and learning in a new language. This blog shares classroom ideas for multilingual teachers.

3 Years!

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It has been three years since our skills-building book, Cuaderno de actividades Primaria Lectura, was released! To the ...
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Encounter by Jane Yolen

Holidays,  Reading,  Strategies

Encounter Author Jane Yolen, Illustrator David Shannon (No, David! books) Book Summary:  When Christopher Columbus landed on the ...
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Maximizing academic language opportunities for our students

ESL,  Strategies

This post focuses on increasing the benefits of using Content and Language Objectives with your students.  I have ...
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Free Features Charts for Day of the Dead and Halloween

Bilingual Resources,  ESL,  Holidays

Are you looking for activities to open a discussion on the similarities and differences of Day of the ...
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#hatedTwitter

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Twitter.  I was never going to “do” Twitter. Twitter was for people who had way too much time ...
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Beginning of the Year Book List

ESL,  Reading

It’s the beginning of the school year when teachers, coaches and principals are looking for “new school year” ...
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Teachers can prevent the summer slip too!

ESL,  Research,  Strategies

I wanted to provide you with some ideas for professional growth over the summer. It doesn't matter if ...
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Read Aloud Planning Template

Bilingual Resources,  Co-Teaching,  ESL,  Reading,  Strategies

FIND FINAL VERSIONS BELOW Co-teaching is on the rise when it comes to providing service to ELs.  As ...
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Activity with High Student Engagement—Vocabulary Circuit

ESL,  Strategies,  Uncategorized

“Vocabulary Circuit” Activity (this link allows you to make a copy of this activity for you to edit) ...
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